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Vol. 28 No. 21 · 2 November 2006
Neal Ascherson
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass. Steidl, 480 pp., €24, September 2006, 3 86521 330 8
Letters
Roger Owen, James Francke, Tony Judt, Malcolm Deas, A.C. Grayling, Mary Evans, Michael Steinberg, Christopher Hampton, James Carmichael, Anna Smith, Helen Deutsch, Michael Rosen, Richard Morris, Sara Haslam, Michael Gilsenan, Colin Burrow
David Runciman
Liars, Hypocrites and Crybabies
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘October 2006’
Stefan Collini
Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 by Philip Waller. Oxford, 1181 pp., £85, April 2006, 0 19 820677 1
Peter Campbell
At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Adam Elsheimer
James Wood
Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn. Picador, 279 pp., £12.99, January 2006, 0 330 43589 2
Jamie McKendrick
Poem: ‘The Resort’
Colin Burrow
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland. Canongate, 334 pp., £9.99, April 2006, 1 84195 734 8
Ed Harriman
US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction US Government Accountability Office US Congressional Research Service US Department of State Kurdistan Regional Government Platform
John Sturrock
Short Cuts: John Reid tries to out-Blunkett Blunkett
Henry Day
The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand by Robin Lane Fox. Yale, 351 pp., £25, September 2004, 0 300 10403 0 The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford, 231 pp., £8.99, September 2005, 0 19 282430 9 Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield. Faber, 248 pp., £17.99, November 2006, 0 571 22383 4 The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination by Tim Rood. Duckworth, 272 pp., £12.99, August 2006, 0 7156 3571 9
Hugo Williams
Four Poems
Jonathan Lear
The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Vol. I by Alasdair MacIntyre. Cambridge, 230 pp., £40, June 2006, 0 521 67061 6 Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays, Vol. II by Alasdair MacIntyre. Cambridge, 239 pp., £40, June 2006, 0 521 67062 4
Stephen Sedley
A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law by R.W. Kostal. Oxford, 529 pp., £79.95, December 2005, 0 19 826076 8
Anthony Pagden
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J.H. Elliott. Yale, 546 pp., £25, May 2006, 0 300 11431 1
Daniel Heller-Roazen
Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750 edited by Jerold Frakes. Oxford, 889 pp., £100, December 2004, 9780199266142 Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature by Jean Baumgarten, edited and translated by Jerold Frakes. Oxford, 459 pp., £75, June 2005, 0 19 927633 1 The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture by David Fishman. Pittsburgh, 190 pp., £23.50, November 2005, 0 8229 4272 0 Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture by Jeffrey Shandler. California, 263 pp., £26.95, November 2005, 0 520 24416 8
John Lanchester
Diary: Blogswarms
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